The Copilot+ PC brand is dead

(windowscentral.com)

34 points | by bj-rn 4 hours ago ago

12 comments

  • glimshe an hour ago

    This is the first time a corporation has spoiled a word for me.

    "Copilot" is a term like any other and when I first heard the name, I thought it was an alright, if uninspired, choice.

    Now I can't hear the word "Copilot" used in any context without having negative feelings due to Microsoft's saturation campaign.

    Speaking of this, I also wonder about present and future people named "Claude", a mainstream name in some parts of the world.

    • ternaryoperator an hour ago

      This happens all the time. Mercedes is a fairly common first name for girls in Spanish countries. Then, of course Alexa, etc.

    • throwaway27448 42 minutes ago

      How often were you using copilot before hand?

      • esrauch 33 minutes ago

        More often than I was using the words Gemini, Claude or Alexa.

    • torben-friis an hour ago

      Happens frequently. I can't hear tremendous anymore. Just considering ai I'm fed up with load bearing, wrinkle, catch...

      It got to the point where I feel irrationally hostile to a message when it claims I'm right :).

      • dgellow an hour ago

        Even just the term AI is now so cancerous!

        A bit unrelated to that thread but I love that clip from a debate where John McCarthy interjects: https://youtu.be/pyU9pm1hmYs?t=152

        “Excuse me. I invented the term artificial intelligence. I invented it because we had to do something when we were trying to get money for a summer study in 1956, and I had a previous bad experience”

        (The whole debate is interesting, I would recommend if you like that type of historical things)

      • api an hour ago

        Hey now, I love Claudish! That's my honest load bearing assessment that I'd like to flag.

  • throwa356262 an hour ago

    The sad part of this is that all those powerful NPUs are basically paperweight.

    35-50 low power TOPS taking 1/5 of the die area and not being used by anyone...

    • bfrog 38 minutes ago

      These things are a waste of sand.

      Could’ve added more gpu or cpu or cache and people would’ve been happier.

      • Cyan488 14 minutes ago

        When these came out, I thought, what is the average PC user going to get out of this? Faster image touchups, and...? You can't run an LLM chatbot of any comparison to free cloud models.

        Oh yeah, and Recall. That worked out well.

    • samrus 23 minutes ago

      We cantnrun local models on them? They must have some sort of api exposed right? Qualcomm has the Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine iirc

  • macintux an hour ago